then this is really the most ******** thing ever. makes no sense whatsoever.

Yeah, it pretty much doesn't work in practice. How this mess came to be, though, was as Finland and Sweden were about to get consecutive tournaments, 2012 and '13, and somebody up there was like, hey, we should split the two tournaments among each other and make more money out of it, both of us. In other words they got too greedy. But the IIHF consented and here we are.

I hope the hockey federation men consider this experiment a failure just like we normal people do.